India withdraws American consular officersʼ ID cards
India Wthdraws American Consular Officersʼ ID cards, American consular officers. New ID cards will only be given to the Consular officials and not to their family members.
The data including salaries paid to staff in US schools has been received and is being analysed: sources. India had announced a slew of retaliatory measures after Devyani Khobragade was arrested for alleged visa fraud on December 12 and stripsearched. S Jaishankar, the new Indian Ambassador to the US, arrived to take charge amid a raging diplomatic row.
Meanwhile, the US is reviewing the paperwork it received from the United Nations about the diplomatic accreditation of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade arrested early this month on visa fraud charges, an American official has said. "We received the paperwork from the United Nations late on Friday. It is under review," a State Department spokesperson told PTI. The spokesperson, however, refused to divulge any detail about the time the State Department would take to review the paperwork or if the entire paperwork was in order and when Khobragade would receive her identity card.
